Rod and Roland: BFF

* You’ve gotta love Governor Blagojevich. He’s just sitting there, giving a big middle finger to everyone in the country. (“Oh, you don’t want me to name a Senator? Here. Suck on this.”) I don’t know anything about this Roland Burris guy, but I have to question the integrity of anyone who’d accept an appointment from our Lego-haired dictator.

* Something’s wrong with my computer. It’s incredibly slow and Internet Explorer windows close randomly if I have more than three open. This is the kind of thing where I would ask IT for help, but we never get an IT person here on the overnight shift. I could call the 24-hour tech support in India, but I think this is an issue with this specific computer. And I have neither the time nor the patience to listen to someone from India fumble around for the better part of the morning. So I’ll just keep furrowing my brow and praying for the day an IT guy just happens to wander into the newsroom some morning.

* The list of banished words for 2009 includes “maverick,” “staycation” and “from Wall Street to Main Street.” I’d like to ban the word “plume.” Getting a little too much play in Andy’s forecasts these days.